Blandino explains Hochuli's 'forward progress' call

[oldrover]

Dean Blandino 'Explains' Ed Hochuli's Ruling That Hurt Patriots

If any of you live in warm weather climates and tend gardens, you can use his 'explanation' as a fresh steaming nutrient-rich pile of fertilizer.

 

[neuronet]

So basically Manning should have been ruled down and we should have won SB42. F you Blandino. It's BS and you know it.

 

[Deus Irae]

Hochuli's a good official who blew a call. It happens. BB was diplomatic about it, and Blandino's lying about it.

Stupid.

 

[reflexblue]

In 55 years plus of watching football i have never heard of the "qbs forward progress stopped" when a qb was going BACK to pass and about to be sacked. I don't have to read the article to know its complete bull sht.

 

[RelocatedPatFan]

In 55 years plus of watching football i have never heard of the "qbs forward progress being stopped" when a qb was going BACK to pass and being sacked. I don't have to read the article to know its complete bull sht.

Seems officials have a habit of making "first time" calls (or perhaps only time calls) that don't work in NE's favor.

so now we have to teach DL to sack a QB and make sure you have him going forward rather than backwards?

Ok, I can crush my tinfoil hat now.

 

[oldrover]

Ok, I can crush my tinfoil hat now.

Yours goes... the rest of ours remain...

 

[MitchKumstein]

So basically Manning should have been ruled down and we should have won SB42.

And not only that, but it pretty much makes it impossible for a quarterback to ever fumble while getting sacked

 

[Ring 6]

Hochuli's a good official who blew a call. It happens. BB was diplomatic about, and Blandino's lying about it.

Stupid.

Pretty much.
Goodell has really created a culture of liars.

 

[Ring 6]

In 55 years plus of watching football i have never heard of the "qbs forward progress being stopped" when a qb was going BACK to pass and being sacked. I don't have to read the article to know its complete bull sht.

If we can apply this retroactively, the helmet catch never happened and the 2007 Patriots went 19-0

 

[KillerB3620]

So basically anytime you hit a qb from the front for a sack and the balls comes out its not a fumble. Please tune in next week when we decide anything the pats do is consider a penalty

 

[BobDigital]

I have seen a QB declared sacked by an official without actually being sacked 1 or 2 times IIRC. Something like the guy has him wrap up and is about to throw him down or he is wrapped up and being ran backwards.

Those i think i have seen but it is very rare and only after the play has gone on for a clear amount of time like that and you are just trying to avoid the QB taking a hit. This was not such a case as it was a bang bang play. Horrible call.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

Hochuli's a good official who blew a call. It happens. BB was diplomatic about, and Blandino's lying about it.

Stupid.

Wait! Blandino is lying? That's so out of character...

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Our friend the Iraqi Minister of Information has a serious rival in Blandino

 

[RelocatedPatFan]

Wait! Blandino is lying? That's so out of character...

You can tell he's lying when his mouth is moving and words are coming out.

 

[sambam94]

never forward progress when a tackler is taken the QB down...same with a RB, if ball comes out when being tackled backwards, it's always a fumble. Forward progress is usually when you have more than 1 defender driving the guy back or possibly 1 defender who has the guy totally wrapped up and is pushing him back.

 

[Deus Irae]

Our friend the Iraqi Minister of Information has a serious rival in Blandino

Photoshop waiting to happen:

 

[Nunchucks]

About 50% of fumbles in the NFL should not be called fumbles based on this rule.

 

[patfanken]

Hoculi's call was probably wrong, but that crap happens. In my mind there were 3 worse call during the game. The non- touch on McCourty's pick, there was a brutal hold on Hogan during the fleaflicker play that probably coast them a TD on that play, even though in ended up being a completion, and one of the holds, I think it was on Mason, that was particularly weak and killed a drive. But that stuff happens too.

What we forget too often is that the refs are part of the game and like the coaches, and players, they too make mistake. You can tell from BB's comments today how the Pats deal with bad calls. They deal with them the same way you deal with a fumble, pick, or a drop. You have to move on to the next pay, and only bad things can happen if you dwell on it for more than a second. Because if you do, it will affect the next play.

THAT is how the Pats are coached to deal with the refs. They are part of the game and just like everyother part of the game they will make mistakes, Some go against y0u, some in favor. Just move on to the next play and win THAT one.

I think BB only gets pissed at officials when they DON't know the rules as well as he does, and if they calling a game very inconsistently. He leaves the complaining to the media and fans, and most of the time he will get a fair break from the refes (with those exceptions where the directives come directly for 345 Park Ave to tilt the game.

On the other hand, Bandino (who has never reffed a game) is a blitering idiot who is just ANOTHER reason to hate the NFL, usual adds gas to the flames of any officiating contraversy and is another momument to the NFL's Peter Principle

 

[reflexblue]

If we can apply this retroactively, the helmet catch never happened and the 2007 Patriots went 19-0

Manning was definitely in the grasp. Whenever ive watched that play i think the ref is going to blow the whistle, because willy mac had him in the grasp for 5-6 seconds and mannings falling backwards.

 

[KillerB3620]

Going into the game I know we must beat the team and the refs. At any giving time I know we are good for a particularly weak call against us.